Mark Egerman completed the four year course of study for a B.A. degree in 1963 at UCLA in three years. He completed the three year course of study at UCLA School of Law in two and one half years and received his Juris Doctorate in February, 1966. Mr. Egerman finished first in his graduating class at UCLA School of Law, was a Senior Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and was awarded the highest law school scholastic honor of Order of the Coif. Mr. Egerman is admitted to practice before all courts of the State of California, the United States District Court, Central District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.

…Mr. Egerman served as Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills in 2004-2005 and 2001-2002. He served two terms on the Beverly Hills City Council from March, 1997, through March, 2005.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mark Egerman completed the four year course of study for a B.A. degree in 1963 at UCLA in three years. He completed the three year course of study at UCLA School of Law in two and one half years and received his Juris Doctorate in February, 1966. Mr. Egerman finished first in his graduating class at UCLA School of Law, was a Senior Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and was awarded the highest law school scholastic honor of Order of the Coif. Mr. Egerman is admitted to practice before all courts of the State of California, the United States District Court, Central District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.

…Mr. Egerman served as Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills in 2004-2005 and 2001-2002. He served two terms on the Beverly Hills City Council from March, 1997, through March, 2005.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

In his 2009 lecture on Leviticus 21, Dennis said: “There are more riveting chapters of the Torah. And there are less riveting ones.

“A dear friend of mine, one of his two sons, had a bar mitzvah. The portion of that Sabbath was not one of the more scintillating ones in the Torah. He asked me if I would speak on the Torah.

“It happens to be that while he is not Orthodox, his family is ultra-Orthodox. Black hat and beards. Very Orthodox. He’s the black sheep in the family for not being Orthodox. At least they came.

“I got up and said this is one of the less riveting portions of the Torah. And his relatives got up and left. I felt so bad for my friend. They were not prepared to hear that one might say that one portion is more riveting than the next.”

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: “What does this say about many — not all — women voters? They are willing to see the country head towards bankruptcy to keep giving people money. Women want to be taken care of. They want their kids taken care of. And that’s it. It’s an emotional vote.

“Women don’t care about the economic well-being of the country as much as men do. They have a more selfish way of voting. How much more money will I and my kids get? That’s how I read it. They don’t care if the country is economically solvent. Men care more. In this instance, men are more responsible than women.”

“The question isn’t whether it is sexist. It is whether it is true. Women are more interested in government expansion and providing benefits than fiscal responsibility. Remember that woman who got up before the townhall meeting of George Bush and John Kerry in 2004 and asked, “If I vote for you, what will you do for me?”"

Female caller: “A lot of women don’t have the support of a man anymore because of the breakdown of the family.”

On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager says: You out there who enable the chronically unhappy should feel awful because you are making your own lives miserable and you are enabling the miserable to stay miserable.

Everybody does this. You have to be very strong not to do this.

If we did not enable the chronically miserable, they would change.

I’m talking about unhappy people who take out their bad moods on others.

I don’t think we enable friends as much, because we simply drop them if they’re too drippy.

You can’t make the unhappy happy. We have to tell the chronically unhappy people in our lives — I can handle your depression, but I can’t handle you taking it out on me.

In his second lecture on Leviticus 20 in 2009, Dennis Prager said: Jacob Milgrom argues that the Torah does not care about lesbianism because lesbians don’t spill seed. But there’s no prohibition against the spilling of seed in the Torah. The sin of Onan is in his refusing to inseminate his wife. The Torah could’ve explicitly banned masturbation and the spilling of seed but does not.

I have been perplexed for a long time about why the Torah does not have anything to say about lesbianism. I think I have the answer.

The answer is — all of these laws presuppose the male as the actor in sex. So just as the Torah does not say to the woman that she can not sleep with her father or brother or son, though there is the bestiality issue. It is hard to imagine a woman initiating bestiality. It was probably a kinky practice that some men found alluring. Bestiality is the only time the woman is possibly pictured as the actor…

In his second lecture on Leviticus 20 in 2009, Dennis Prager said: “When I was in my bachelor days in my twenties, I went out with women of all backgrounds. I intended to only marry someone born Jewish or converted to Jewish. My one criteria was is it a woman?

“I kept kosher and still do. I was going to write a long article for Jewish publications titled, ‘Keeping Kosher on an Interdate.’

“I said this publicly at the time, I would tell Jewish audiences, ‘Folks, it is a little eery. When I am with a non-religious Jewish woman, she thinks that what I am doing by disqualifying many things on the menu because I am a Jew is absurd. Whenever I am with a non-Jewish woman, she has such respect for what I am doing. Every one has said, ‘I am not going to order anything like that either. What would offend you?”

Dennis: “When the right gets angry, do you notice there’s no violence? They clean up after their demonstrations. Who do you think is more likely to key your car if they don’t agree with your bumper sticker?”

WEST NEWTON, Mass. – President Barack Obama said Americans’ “fear and frustration” is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda.

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”

Dennis: “Maybe people think more clearly when they are scared? Perhaps nothing concentrates the mind like the vision of a bankrupt America?

“A friend told my wife Friday night that he was just in Thailand and people refused the dollar. They preferred baht, the Thai currency.

Luke Ford writes: Dennis Prager said after interviewing black Republican candidate for Congress, Tim Scott: “When you meet conservative blacks… And I’ll compare activist to activist. The humor, the happiness, the freedom. When a black rethinks things, and this is true for anybody, but blacks in particular, when one realizes one can be the master of my life, which is what conservatism is all about, as opposed to I will wait for the government to save me, how can you not be happier as a conservative? Polls show conservatives are happier. We don’t want others to take care of us [if possible].”

“People want to be saved by government in France who are perfectly healthy and young. You are made worse by left-wing ideas.”

“You are not free at last when you depend on the government to hire you and to take care of you and to give you benefits.

“That’s why there’s a dour disposition whenever you talk to any of these black liberal politicians. Their whole personality is different.”

“Put Maxine Waters on one side and Tim Scott on the other. The woman radiates anger at America. She makes her constituents more bitter.”

On his radio show Oct. 22, 2010, Dennis said: Most Of What You Want Isn’t Good For You. It will not make you happy. The list is so long that I could spend the rest of the show just listing common things we want that aren’t good for us, such as food.

On the road, I go to grocery stores to pick up food to eat that is semi-healthy. The food available at 7/11 and airports is largely junk. There is almost nothing in there that I don’t want to eat. I want to be buried with M&M peanuts next to me. I love M&Ms.

Most of what we want isn’t good for our happiness and our bodies. Forget our character.

It is important to teach your kids early that what they want is likely not good for them.

As a kid, I did not want to go to school. The happiest days of my elementary school life were when at night, it started to snow and I would look out the window and I had one prayer — that it sticks. If it doesn’t stick, it doesn’t matter how much it snows, the school bus will pick me up because they can get through slush but they can’t get through a serious snow fall that sticks.

Ninety nine percent of the food we want is because it is tasty. Generally speaking, the more tasty the food, the worse it is for you.

The Aleppo Syrian [Jewish] community burned this book [a Torah commentary quoting Christian and Egyptian sources].

We think of the Sephardic world as more open-minded but you have extremism [in places such as Aleppo].

These rabbis in Aleppo opposed secular studies in their entirety. They are very unusual for the Sephardic world. The Sephardic world is usually very open to secular studies.

R. Elijah Benamozegh said that Torah and secular studies could not be kept as two religious spheres because that would create religious doubt. If you tell people you can’t study secular matters and they become convinced that secular studies are true, then you become convinced that Torah is false.

Light blinds people who have been in darkness for a long time. You have to be exposed to it gradually. When secular studies reach areas where people have not been exposed to it, it is like they are coming out of a cave and it leaves them to reject tradition. That is what happened in Eastern Europe [at the turn of the 20th Century], within the space of a generation, so many rejected tradition. In Germany, where Hirsch’s system was underway, there was very little attrition.

I've never married. I've never had kids. And I've never had a mortgage.

I associate those three things together. They mean adulthood to me and because I have not done them, I feel like I am less of an adult.

I don't go around moping about this, but I think of maturity as taking on responsibilities such as a spouse, kids and a mortgage.

A mortgage settles you down to a particular place and community. You're less likely to take chances with your blogging if you have a mortgage. You don't want to get sued for libel or for anything and lose your home, your castle.

I revel in my freedom. That's what living in an apartment means to me. I can get up and go. I'm not tied down. I have no ball and chain.

About Me

I am an Alexander Technique teacher in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com). I have five books available on Amazon.com. I've been blogging since 1997. I was born in Kurri Kurri, Australia, on May 28, 1966. I have lived in California since May 1977.